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------- Additional comments from rustybad...@openoffice.org Sun Dec 14 00:02:02 +0000 2008 ------- I work for a public school district with a 1:1 laptop program for our students. We use MS Word on those machines because Word has the split screen feature, which has serious pedagogical benefits in the classroom. If OO had this feature, we could save ourselves close to $20,000 per YEAR in licensing costs for M$ Orifice. This is the ONLY feature that is keeping us from switching to Open Office on all our Macintosh laptops, but it's a serious one. All of our teachers who use the laptops for their literacy improvement program have been trained by the experts to use the split screen as a literacy aid for students. Especially when working on 12" screens like our iBooks have, you cannot have two windows open- there's simply not enough real estate. Furthermore, it adds complexity to the task, and when you're working with Grade 4 students, that's the last thing you want! I assume that there's folks from Sun watching this thread: if you're out there, contact me, please. We are willing to contribute some serious financial support to get this implemented- as I said, we spend an astronomical amount of money on MS every year, and we'd just love to give some of it to you if you'll help us out here! I can guarantee you we're not the only ones in this situation as well- I went to a conference in the summer with over a thousand teachers and administrators from schools all over North America and the UK, many of them having the same kind of programs in their schools. A lot of them would love to switch to F/OSS, but they're kneecapped by lack of features that Microsoft has played up on. All we need is a simple horizontal split; when dragged downwards, both panes show the same document, but are independently scrollable. We don't need two edit points, or two cursors, or dual selection capabilities; just make it work exactly like Word 2004 for Mac and you've got a winner in the schools. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
